Abigail Adams A Revolutionary American Woman (Library of American Biography Series)

by Akers, Charles W.

• ISBN13: 9780321445018
• ISBN10: 0321445015
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-14
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This lively biography of Adams details the life of a revolutionary, mother, activist and wife who engaged in the building of the America nation. Abigail Adams campaigned for the education of women and pioneered the role women were to play in the American Revolution and the new Republic. The life of this one woman forms a large window on society during the 75 years that saw the birth and cultural maturation of the United States. The titles in theLibrary of American Biography Seriesmake ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. At the same time, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	ix
Author's Preface	xi
1 "You May Take Me" 1744-1764	1	(18)
2 "An Important Trust" 1764-1774	19	(15)
3 "Remember the Ladies" 1774-1776	34	(19)
4 "Bereft of My Better Half" 1776-1778	53	(16)
5 "Patriotism in the Female Sex" 1778-1784	69	(22)
6 "The Amaizing Difference" 1784-1785	91	(14)
7 "I Will Not Strike My Colours" 1785-1788	105	(20)
8 "In Their Proper Sphere" 1788-1792	125	(18)
9 "Tellegraph of the Mind" 1792-1797	143	(20)
10 "Fellow Labourer" 1797-1798	163	(18)
11 "What I Cannot Remedy" 1798-1801	181	(20)
12 "The Mother of Such a Son" 1801-1818	201	(20)
Study and Discussion Questions	221	(6)
A Note on the Sources	227	(7)
Acknowledgments	234	(3)
Index	237